Immediate Feeling?

Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir researches hyperstates

The new work of the choreographer Margrét Sara Gudjónsdóttir, is a performative approach to the depths of the body, and intends to reveal the unconscious through a direct access to emotions, pathological and physically extreme states. Five dancers indulge in their own, innermost privacy, and yet those raw insights into joy and pain shall simultaneously convey general knowledge about the landscape of human feelings. For a long time, Gudjónsdóttir has been working on the quality of movement that are rooted in so-called hyperstates and thus make a social, political body experienceable. The outside manifests itself in inner life begging the question, what degree of politics are there in feelings? (ah)